The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.

No man is bound to be rich or great, - no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest.

The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.

There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

I don't do what you people want. I Do What I Want!

Acting in "Star Wars," I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.

I eat almost no lunch. I have a big dinner but I don't have a big lunch.

If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about the sound and not about the songs.